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Show Guardsmen Make Points At Annual Camp Southern Utah guardsmen, members of the 2nd How'lzei Battalion, 222nd Artillery. Utah National Guard, returned from two weeks encampment from Ci.r.ip W. G. Williams Saturday wi'h an enviable record n at Mevement. Lt. Col. Max Dalley. commander command-er of the battalion, which includes in-cludes battery units at St. George Cedar City, Beaver, Fillmore and Richfield, indicated that Sixth Army Evaluation teams at the camp rated the unit generally excellent with a number of special spec-ial superior ratings. The battalion staff received a superior rating and the firing battery from St. George itx jived a superior rating in their Army tests conducted during the second sec-ond week of the encampment, he said. Firing batteries from Fillmore and Richfield rated excellent, scoring In the 90s of a possible 100. Assisting in each of the firing tests were fire direction survey crews of Headtjuaters Battery of Cedar City. During the two weeks of camp the Battalion fired approximately approximate-ly (MX) rounds of 153 millimeter ammunition from the truck-drawn truck-drawn guns. The commander indicated that it was belived that the 2nd Battalion Bat-talion received the highest evaluation eval-uation rating of any artillery unit un-it In the state-wide encampment. The Headquarters Battery supply sup-ply room received special recognition, recog-nition, receiving the Sparrow Award, for the out standing supply sup-ply room of the camp and was s!"C Tz'.ci by the evilusticr. team as superior. The supply section is under the direction of Sgt. Robert Hunter. The battalion consists of 24 j officers and 350 enlisted men I with 12 officers and 70 enlisted men comprising the Headquarters and headquarters battery of Cedar Ce-dar City. |